31.   The Charlotte Hornets have achieved the purpose of their trip, and anything accomplished in their next game against the Miami Heat is a bonus.

32.   Two years of protests and crippling strikes appear to have achieved their purpose with the announcement Friday that a former supreme court justice has agreed to oversee new elections.

33.   He said this illustrated the government decision to allow wider daily fluctuations in the dong had achieved its purpose of closing the gap between official and black market rates.

34.   But he added that he felt he had achieved his purpose -- the film was already in Cannes, even if he himself could not be here.

35.   Japan contends that the pact has achieved its purpose and any future arrangement should be on a multilateral basis, a position that has attracted the support of Europe.

36.   Ryzhkov said it was unlikely Aksenenko would be either arrested or tried, now that the judicial proceedings had achieved their purpose.